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...until age nine or ten (all Dr.Nagy's ages are general averages) does the child begin to realize that death is the result of a process operating within all living things, and marks an irreversible end to bodily life. Adolescents, reports Clark University's Robert Kasten-baum, manage to dissociate themselves from ideas of death as from everything else past or future - they live in an "in tense present." Faith & Fear. Editor Feifel questioned adults on "What does death mean to you?" Answers ranged from stoic accept ance of the inevitable to welcoming the "precondition...
...Betta Kappa Honor Society yesterday elected the following Harvard seniors: Michael J. Atkiss, of Dunster House and Brooklyn, N.Y., a concentrator in Biology; Edward M. Baum, of Quincy House and Evansville, Indiana, Architectural Sciences; Paul A. Buttenweiser, of Quincy House and New York City, History and Literature; Joel D. Cooper, of Lowell House and Charleston, W. Va., Chemistry; Paul D'Andrea, of Lowell House and Belmont, Physics; Patrick Henry III, of Lowell House and Dallas, Tex., History and Literature; Richard B. Hines, of Lowell House and New York City, Romance Languages...
Quickly Pilot Baum took over, told Berke to help him roll the giant plane back to the left. The 707 came up straight and level, then rolled beyond to the left. With only the right inboard engine remaining, Pilot Baum thought fast, decided that he lacked the power to roll the plane back to the right, so, taking advantage of the momentum, turned the airliner into a maneuver for which it was never intended-a barrel roll. Under Baum's practiced hand, the huge 707 went through its full roll till finally it was right side up again, flying...
Beyond Endurance. Just then fire spouted from the severed fuel lines where engine No. 2 had torn loose. Baum knew he had only seconds to get his plane down before his fuel exploded. He could not raise his flaps or lower his wheels, for the loss of three power plants had disrupted the hydraulic and electrical systems. As Baum headed for a pasture. Flight Engineer George Hagen worked to get the flaps and landing gear back in operation. Boeing Pilot William Allsop, two Braniff men and a representative from the Federal Aviation Agency headed aft to take seats near...
Braniff man, Pilot Frank Staley, grabbed a seat near the front. Baum made a couple of descending spirals, wove between hills near the town of Oso. He was only 200 yds. from the pasture. But the 707. torn and tossed far beyond the limits of its carefully engineered endurance, gave up. The fiery wing exploded, and the plane splashed into the Stillaguamish River. The forward section disintegrated on impact, killing Baum, Berke, Engineer Hagen and Frank Staley, The tail section hit a sandbar, and the four men inside crawled to safety...